Eurasian environments : nature and ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet history / edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breyfogle, Nicholas B., 1968- editor.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Soviet Union--History.

Nature.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Russia--History.

Human ecology--Soviet Union.

Human ecology.

Human ecology--Russia.

Russia--Environmental conditions.

Russia.

Soviet Union--Environmental conditions.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 401 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Toward an environmental history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union / Nicholas B. Breyfogle

Planting trees in unsuitable places : steppe forestry in the Russian Empire, 1696-1850 / David Moon

"People arrive but the land does not move" : nomads, settlers, and the ecology of the Kazakh Steppe, 1870-1916 / Sarah Cameron

"The scourge of stock raising" : zhŭt, limiting environments, and the economic transformation of the Kazakh Steppe / Ian W. Campbell

Desiccated steppes : droughts and climate change in the USSR, 1960s-1980s / Marc Elie

Leviathan on the Oxus : water and Soviet power on the lower Amu Darya, 1920s-1940s / Christian Teichmann

Soviet irrigation policies under fire : ecological critique in Central Asia, 1970-1991 / Julia Obertreis

Models of soil and society : the legacy of Justus Liebig in Russia and the Soviet Union / Mieka Erley

How a rock remade the Soviet north : Nepheline in the Khibiny mountains / Andy Bruno

Encounters with permafrost the rhetoric of conquest and processes of adaptation in the Soviet Union / Pey-Yi Chu

The Christian environmental ethic of the Russian Pomor / Stephen Brain

Experts on unknown waters : environmental risk, fisheries science, and local knowledge in the Russian north / Julia Lajus

Fishing, settlement, and conservation in the Russian Far East, 1860-1940 / Mark Sokolsky

The tragedy of Captain Ligov : the Imperial and Soviet literature of whaling, 1860-1960 / Ryan Tucker Jones

Strengthening the Tsarist Empire's immune system : environmental cures along Crimea's coast of health / George Lywood

Reshaping the land, chasing the mosquito : Soviet power and malaria in Tajikistan, 1924-1938 / Lisa Walker

Conclusions. Nature, empire, intelligentsia / Douglas Weiner And John Brooke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780822986331

0822986337

OCLC:

1061503217